Beyond the boundaries of established science an avalanche of exotic ideas compete for our attention. Experts tell us that these ideas should not be permitted to take up the time of working scientists, and for the most part they are surely correct. But what about the gems in the rubble pile? By what ground-rules might we bring extraordinary new possibilities to light?

Perhaps the electrons are configured that way because they are really part of a hash to look up physical state when computing the physical behavior of the universe, and prime numbers make the hashing more efficient. You know, if 'reality' is just some kind of holographic simulation.

willendure wrote:Perhaps the electrons are configured that way because they are really part of a hash to look up physical state when computing the physical behavior of the universe, and prime numbers make the hashing more efficient. You know, if 'reality' is just some kind of holographic simulation.

Hash definition...."A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to data of fixed size. The values returned by a hash function are called hash values, hash codes, digests, or simply hashes." ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function